Country Pickin'

About this title: As pieced together from a patchwork of RCA sources from the 1950s and 1960s, this extremely inexpensive two-LP set was a marvelous Chet Atkins sampler, concentrating on his more countrified records with minimal, cooking rhythm backing. Even within the country context, there is a lot of variety here - the Les Paul-like playing on "Hot Mocking Bird," the erudite excursions all over the stylistic lot on "Kicky," covers of the big countrypolitan ballad hits "Make the World Go Away" and "Release Me," the relaxed Latin-flavored "Bandera," pop tunes like "April in Portugal" and "Lonesome Road." You ... read more

Tracks:

1. Foggy Mountain Top [Carter]
2. Wabash Cannonball [Carter]
3. Yankee Doodle Dixie [Atkins]
4. Hot Mocking Bird
5. Oklahoma Hills [Guthrie/Guthrie]
6. Early Times [Reed]
7. Wildwood Flower [Carter]
8. San Antonio Rose [Wills]
9. Make the World Go Away [Cochran]
10. Oh Baby Mine [Ballard]
11. Release Me [Miller/Williams/You]
12. The Bells of St. Mary's [Adams/Furber]
13. Kicky [Reed]
14. Prancin' Filly
15. Lonesome Road [Austin/Shilkret]
16. Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad [Traditional]
17. April in Portugal [Ferrao/Gilbardo/Ken]
18. Bandera [Nelson]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.